Click on names that are underlined below to see personal bio
Connie
Barlow -
Evolutionary Evangelist with Michael Dowd
& author of several
science & children's books on evolution
In a special
presentation Connie will share her "River of Life"
(based on the
book "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins)
Josephina Burgos
- California Institute
for Integral Studies
Dwight
Collins -
Pres., Collins Family Foundation;
Prof. Sustainable Ops Management, Presidio School of Management
Robert Corrington - Professor of Philosophical Theology, Graduate
Division of Religion, Drew University
"Religion,
Sex, and Art: From Pathology to the Post-Tribal"
Peter Corning
-
Past Director of the Institute for Complex Studies and co-owner of
Synergy Farms
"Holistic Darwism: Beyond the
Selfish Gene" and "Fair Shares: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
(Or the Biological Basis
of Social Justice)"
Robert Duisberg
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UIEvolution - Senior Research Engineer
Michael
Dowd - Evolutionary Evangelist with Connie Barlow
and author of Thank God For Evolution
“Science and Wisdom in
Service of an Inspiring Future”
Rianne Eisler -Social Scientist, Attorney, and Social Activist -
author of the international bestseller
The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future
Duane Elgin -
Author of Awakening
Earth: Exploring The Evolution Of Human Culture & Consciousness
"The Living Universe: Where
are we? Who are we? Where are we going?
Cheryl
Genet -
Professor of Philosophy, Cuesta College; Director, Orion Institute
"Adventures in Synergy"
Russell
Genet - Professor of Astronomy Cuesta College; Director, Orion Observatory
“Humanity in the Cosmos”
Louis Herman - Professor of Politics, University of Hawaii
"Future
Primal: A Politics for Evolving Humanity"
Peter Hess - Director Faith Project National Center for
Science Education
Barbara Marx Hubbard - President of the Foundation
for Conscious Evolution
"A Vision of the Future Equal to our
Spiritual, Social and Scientific Potential: Key Steps Toward It Now"
Les Ihara
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Hawaii State Senator
Pauline Le Bel -
Screenwriter, novelist, songwriter, and playwright
"Bringing the Universe Story Home”
Jeanne Lombardo -
Educator,
poet, writer & editor; Master’s candidate in Interdisciplinary
Humanities
"Wisdom and the Ideal
Society"
David Loye - Social
Psychologist, Systems-theorist, and Futurist - Founder of the Darwin
Project
"The Global Sounding and the Better World"
Thomas Lombardo
- Resident Futurist Faculty, & Chair of Psychology & Philosophy at
Rio Salado College
"Wisdom, Virtue, and Future Consciousness"
Keith Mesecher
- Singer/Song Writer and Director of The Cosmic All Stars
band.
George Mobus - Assoc.
Prof. Computing & Software Systems, Institute of Technology, U of
Washington
Jack Palmer -
Jack
- Professor of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Monroe;
"Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior"
Linda
Palmer
–
Health and
psychology researcher/writer/editor, Jiva Institute
Sheri Ritchlin -
California
Institute for Integral Studies
Bill Shireman -
President and CEO of the Future 500, Co-author of "What We
Learned in the Rain Forest"
Brian Swimme - Prof of
Mathematical and
Evolutionary Cosmology, California Institute for Integral Studies,
Co-author with Thomas Berry of "The Universe Story"
Trileigh Tucker - Associate Professor and Director, Environmental
Studies at Seattle University
Richard
Trowbridge - Professor of Wisdom Studies;
Founder; Transletix, The Flourishing
Earth, The Wisdom-Centered Life
"Wisdom: Theory and Practice"
Art Whatley
-
Chair - Master of Arts Program in Global
Leadership & Sustainable Development at Hawaii Pacific University
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Connie Barlow is an acclaimed author of popular science books and
articles, and developer of THE GREAT STORY website. Connie's
most recent book, The Ghosts of Evolution (Basic Books), was Amazon.com's top-recommended science book for several months in
2001. Her previous books, Green Space, Green Time: The Way of
Science (Copernicus Books), Evolution Extended: Biological
Debates on the Meaning of Life (MIT Press), and From Gaia to
Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences, all
explore the nexus of science, spirit, and meaning. She is
founding member and webmaster of Torreya Guardians, an internet
community of botanists, naturalists, and others dedicated to
ensuring the continuing persistence in the wild of America's
most endangered conifer tree: Torreya taxifolia. A Unitarian
Universalist, she is a well-known developer of curricula for
children's religious education programs. Since 2002, she and her
husband (Rev. Michael Dowd) have lived entirely on the road, as
"America's evolutionary evangelists".
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Josephina Burgos - Born in
Santiago, Chile, Josefina Burgos came to reside in the U.S.A. in
1976 with her son and husband. She lived in Washington, D.C.,
where she approved the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE),
became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)
and practiced architecture for sixteen years. She became an
American citizen in 1986. She then moved to San Francisco,
California, where she joined the California Institute of
Integral Studies. There she obtained a master of arts degree in
philosophy and religion. Burgos is currently completing the
dissertation phase of her doctoral studies. In 2003 she
published a short story, Thoughts on a Theme by a Seagull,
in the Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies (CPS) in
Claremont, CA, Process Perspectives, Vol. 26, Number 1, Winter
2002-2003. That same year another of her stories, Adelaide,
was accepted by Process Perspectives and made available as a
paper to the membership of the CPS. In 2006 she was
selected to give a presentation – Meaning in a Post-Modern
Universe -- at the 10th Annual Conference, Exploring the
Boundaries of Experience and Self, organized by the
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology (CEP) Section of the
British Psychological Society, at St. Anne’s College in Oxford,
UK .
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Dwight
Collins
teaches Sustainable Operations Management at
the San Francisco based Presidio School of Management. He is the
founder and president of Colbridge & Company. Previously, Dwight
directed Aspen Technology’s Strategic Planning Practice, which
provided strategic planning optimization consulting services to
senior executives. Dwight founded a Semiconductor Industry
Practice at Chesapeake Decision Sciences through which he was
instrumental in devising strategic enterprise planning and
customer order promising systems for several semiconductor
companies. In this time frame, Dwight also implemented supply
chain optimization capabilities for Shaw Industries, the largest
carpet producer in the US, and chemical company Rohm & Haas.
Earlier in his career, Dwight worked as a Senior Operations
Analyst at Exxon Corporation, a Senior Consultant at the
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) (a Washington, D.C. think
tank), and as Captain in the US Air Force. Dr. Collins earned a
BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in
Operations Research, all from Cornell University.
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Collins Family Foundation
www.collinsff.org
Presidio
School of Management
www.presidiomba.org
Colbridge and Company
www.colbridgeandco.com
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Peter Corning is currently the
co-owner of Synergy Farm near Friday Harbor, Washington (USA).
His varied career has included a tour as a naval aviator, a
stint in journalism as a science writer for Newsweek, a Ph.D. in
the social sciences, post-doctoral training in biology and
behavior genetics, several years of teaching in Stanford
University's interdisciplinary Human Biology Program and broad
private sector experience as a senior partner in a Silicon
Valley consulting firm, as well as directing the Institute for
the Study of Complex Systems. He is also a member of several
scientific organizations and a past-president of the
International Society for the Systems Sciences. He has published
more than 150 professional papers and five books and is widely
known for his work on the role of synergy as a causal agency in
evolution.
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Robert S. Corrington
is Professor of Philosophical Theology in the Graduate Division
of Religion of Drew University, Madison, NJ. He is the author
of nine books and around eighty articles devoted to unfolding
his own philosophy of ecstatic naturalism, which emerged
out of dialogue with Euro-American pragmatism (Peirce, James,
Dewey, Santayana), with its intense focus on the metaphysical
implications of Darwin, and Continental Phenomenology (Husserl,
Heidegger, Sartre), which bypasses epistemology (theory of
knowledge) to gain a more primal and grounded account of human
consciousness and its intentional objects. His metaphysics of
ecstatic naturalism is concerned with exhibiting the utter
vastness of nature as that nature manifests its own unconscious
potencies and the religious orders of meaning that intersect
with the human unconscious. His seventh book, A Semiotic
Theory of Theology and Philosophy, (Cambridge University
Press, 2000) extends his categorial scheme into the foundational
structures of the world and presents a semiotic cosmology.
Currently he is working on a larger project for Cambridge
University Press as well as other book projects that will
further ramify and extend ecstatic naturalism. This involves a
continuing exploration of Hinduism, Buddhism, and theosophy as
they all intersect with the liberal strains in Western
metaphysics and theology.
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Click here to read Corrington's nine specific assertions
about naturalism Website:
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Michael
Dowd graduated summa cum laude from Evangel
University in Springfield, Missouri (affiliated with the
Assemblies of God), where he received a B.A. in biblical studies
and philosophy. He also graduated with honors from Eastern
Baptist Theological Seminary (now, Palmer Seminary) in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (affiliated with the American Baptist
Church), where he earned a Master of Divinity degree. Dowd
served as a congregational minister for nine years, pastoring
United Church of Christ (UCC) churches in Massachusetts, Ohio,
and Michigan. His 1991 book, EarthSpirit: A Handbook for
Nurturing an Ecological Christianity (Twenty-Third Publications)
was one of the first attempts to look appreciatively at biblical
Christianity from the perspective of a modern cosmology.
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www.TheGreatStory.org
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Robert Duisberg holds both a PhD in
Computer Science and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
University of Washington, in addition to a M.S. in Physics from
the same institution and a B.A. in Physics and Music from
Williams College. His most recent research has dealt with
questions of artificial intelligence, affective computing, and
statistical mechanics of neural networks. He has had careers in
academics and industry working in user interface design and
animation, holding a patent for techniques in algorithm
visualization and animation. Currently he teaches information
systems on the faculty at Seattle University. Dr. Duisberg is
also the composer of a wide range of music, including
symphonies, a string quartet, a violin sonata, choral pieces, an
opera, and works for musical theater. His musical works have
been performed by the Seattle Symphony, the Flagstaff Symphony
Orchestra, Seattle Civic Light Opera, ACT Theater, and several
chamber ensembles. Dr. Duisberg‚s musical awards include the
Northwest Composers‚ Forum award for choral music and the
Hutchinson Fellowship for creative work in music, Williams
College (fellow recipient Stephen Sondheim).
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Duane Elgin is an internationally
recognized author and speaker who, for more than thirty years,
been speaking and writing in four major areas: 1) the big
picture of humanity’s evolutionary journey at this pivotal time
in history, 2) more sustainable and satisfying ways of living,
3) media accountability for an empowered citizenry and society,
and 4) the convergence of science with the world’s wisdom
traditions and their shared views of a living universe. Duane is
the author of three major books: Promise Ahead:
A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (2000), Voluntary
Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly
Simple, Inwardly Rich (1993 and 1981), and Awakening
Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and
Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and others he
co-authored the book Changing Images of Man
(1982). He has worked as a senior social scientist with the
think-tank, SRI International where he coauthored numerous
studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as
the National Science Foundation and the President's Science
Advisor. He has also worked as a senior staff member of a joint
Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future. He
has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in economic history
from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of
Philosophy for work in "ecological and spiritual transformation"
from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San
Francisco, CA. Duane was honored in 2006 with the International
“Goi Peace Award” in recognition of his contribution to a
global “vision, consciousness, a lifestyle that fosters a “more
sustainable and spiritual culture.”
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Cheryl
L.
Genet, Ph. D. earned her doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Science
and Theology. As director of the Orion Institute’s Science and
Human Meaning program, she focuses her research on scientific
paradigms, cosmological stories, interfaith relations, and
understanding our emerging global community. She taught at
Central Arizona College and more recently at California
Polytechnic State University Osher Institute for Life-Long
Learning. Currently she teaches philosophy at Cuesta
College, and is the Managing Editor of the Collins Foundation
Press.
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Russell
M.
Genet, PhD, is a
Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State
University, Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College, and
Director of the Orion Observatory.
He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred
scientific papers. He observes eclipsing binary stars and
studies cosmic evolution. Russ, who pioneered the world’s first
fully robotic observatory (featured in the PBS special The
Perfect Stargazer), was the 51st President of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific.
His latest
book, Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, tells
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Peter M.
J. Hess - His position as Faith Project Director
for the National Center for
Science Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California.involves
outreach to churches and other faith communities to promote the
compatibility of evolutionary biology and religious belief.
Peter earned his M.A. in philosophy and theology from Oxford
University, and his Ph.D. in ecclesiastical history from the
Graduate Theological Union. His scholarly work focuses on the
interactions between science and religion in the modern world,
particularly the impact of theology on the Scientific Revolution
(1600-1900) and the response by theologians to discoveries and
new paradigms in the developing sciences. His book on
Catholicism and Science, co-authored with Paul Allen of
Concordia University, will appear in April, 2008 (Greenwood
Press); he is also writing on the religious and ethical
implications of the rapidly approaching end of affordable oil.
Peter has taught theology, philosophy and history since 1980,
and currently teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at
Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. A fellow of the
International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), he is
also an active member of the European Society for the Study of
Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Metanexus Institute of
Philadelphia. An avid rock climber and volcano mountaineer,
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Louis
Herman.
Professor
Herman is a political philosopher and head of the political
science program at the University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu Campus. He was
born and raised in South Africa, educated at Cambridge, England
(medicine and the history and philosophy of science), and was
initiated into utopian politics through involvement with the
Israeli Kibbutz movement. He came to Hawaii to get some
philosophical distance from his origins and complete a PhD in
politics. He now returns regularly to his birthplace in South
Africa for his work as executive producer with an international
team on a feature length documentary film Primal Quest, dealing
with the convergence between the ancient shamanic wisdom of the
San Bushman, the hunter gatherers of the Kalahari, and the
latest scientific insights from evolutionary cosmology. His book
manuscript, Future Primal: A Politics Beyond Modernity
provides the background research and vision for the film. He has
also authored articles and papers on related themes.
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Primal Quest
website
http://socrates.uhwo.hawaii.edu/
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Barbara
Marx
Hubbard
is President of the Foundation for Conscious
Evolution, received her Bachelor Degree from Bryn Mawr College
cum laude in Political Science. She took her junior year abroad
at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
She was given a first ever Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by
Emerson Theological Institute. Barbara has helped create the
field of conscious evolution. She wrote a first evolutionary
networking “Center Letter” in 1967-69 to over 1000 people,
working with Dr. Jonas Salk, Abraham Maslow, Lancelot Law Whyte
and others to ask the question: “What is the next step for the
future good?” She founded The Committee for the Future in 1970
in Washington DC., where she co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences
for SYNergistic CONvergence. These advanced, multi media,
multi-disciplinary events brought diverse people from every
field and function together in a wheel shaped environment to
seek common goals and match needs with resources in the light of
the growing potential of the whole system. She wrote and
narrated the Theater for the Future; a multi-media story of
creation that places humanity in the story and visualizes what
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Pauline Le Bel
has been a fulltime artist for over 30 years – an Emmy-nominated
screenwriter, award-winning novelist, songwriter, playwright,
voice teacher, festival organizer and “evolutionary troubadour”.
She is an experienced actor/singer who has worked professionally
in theatre, film and radio. She was called "a musical instrument
linked to a soul" for her dramatic portrayal of chanteuse, Edith
Piaf, in a play she co-wrote. Her published/produced writing
credits include: a novel, two screenplays (The Song Spinner, a
family movie for Showtime), 4 musicals, a radio drama, songs for
films, 3 CDs of her own songs, and articles for various
publications. Her powerful, earthy voice has been heard in
theatres and concert halls across Canada, in the U.S. and the
U.K. and her poetic, musical interpretation of the universe
story has delighted international audiences. For three years,
she was Artistic Director of Voices in the Sound, an arts and
nature festival she created and organized, and is the author of
a cosmological musical about her home, Bowen Island, Canada. She
is part of a growing community working to integrate art, nature,
science and spirit to support a radical transformation in human
consciousness.
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www.suncoastarts.com/
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Jeanne
Belisle
Lombardo
is
co-founder of the Center For Future Consciousness in
Scottsdale Arizona, an educational institute
designed to
help individuals and organizations increase their understanding
of the future and constructively approach its challenges and
possibilities.
Jeanne is interested in the intersection between the humanities
and the sciences, and the role that intellect and emotion plays
in shaping our world. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish
and Latin American Studies, and is currently writing her
Master’s thesis in Interdisciplinary Humanities on stasis and
dynamism in the
evolution of
utopian thought. Conversant in several languages, having lived
and traveled in numerous countries around the world, she has
been a teacher, educational administrator, editor, writer,
inter-cultural advisor, and educational consultant.
Passionate about language,
culture, history and ideas, informed about current events and
global issues, and committed to excellence and learning,
Jeanne’s present interests include the future of marriage and
gender relations, utopian models of ideal future societies,
ethics and ethical evolution, biotechnology and human
enhancement, the future of education, and humanities and the
future.
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Jeanne
firmly believes that
"The
quality of the future will reflect the future quality of human
beings." Explore future consciousness and read Jeanne’s essays
in the humanities at
www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com
gknee@cox.net
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Tom Lombardo, Ph.D. is the
founder and Executive Director of the Center for Future
Consciousness in Scottsdale, Arizona and a leading researcher,
writer, and speaker on the topic of the future. The author of
The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist
Thought, Dr. Lombardo brings a unique and powerful synthesis of
contemporary science, psychology and philosophy to the field of
future studies. He is also the Resident Futurist Faculty, as
well as the Faculty Chair of Psychology and Philosophy at Rio
Salado College in Tempe, Arizona. He is a graduate of the
University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota and a
graduate fellow of Cornell University. He has served as the
Chief Psychologist and Educational Director at John Madden
Mental Health Center, the Dean of Forest Institute of
Professional Psychology, and the Chair of the Psychology
Instructional Council at Maricopa Community Colleges. His first
book, The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment, is the best
selling volume in Lawrence Erlbaum’s Resources in Ecological
Psychology and has been translated into Japanese. Dr. Lombardo
is an award-winning educator with over thirty years professional
experience.
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Keith
Mesecher was
inspired more than 3 years ago by Michael Dowd's telling
of the sacred story of our evolving universe and since
then has been studying, teaching, and preaching the story of the
universe, as we know it from science, and reflecting on our role
in its majestic and magnificent unfolding ever since. Keith
formed an organization, Cosmos, at his Unitarian Universalist
Church in San Diego and offered church services based on the
Great Story. He combines visuals from the Hubbell Space
Telescope with guided meditations, participatory, joyous
singing, and story telling, based on Brian Swimme’s Powers of
the Universe. As a singer/songwriter Keith began to
write high-energy songs celebrating the universe and our role in
it, getting the congregation on their feet and dancing during
Cosmos worship services. Cosmos invited Michael Dowd and Connie
Barlow to San Diego and together they staged North America's
first Evolutionary Revival. Michael preached and led a guided
meditation, and Connie involved attendees in an enacted parable
as she taught the Story of the Universe. Keith and his band, The
Cosmic All Stars, led the audience in rousing singing to his
songs projected on a screen with magnificent photographs by
Connie and the Hubbell Space Telescope. The Cosmic All
Stars is about to release a CD of the songs written for Cosmos
and The Evolutionary Revival, and it includes versions with just
the band that can be used for live celebrations when the band
isn’t present.
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Jack
A.
Palmer is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he has taught since
1989. Jack and his wife Linda coauthored a text human evolution,
Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior,
published by Allyn & Bacon in 2002. Jack primarily teaches
Neuropsychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Positive
Psychology. His evolution courses and textbook take the larger
“Evolutionary Epic” perspective, which is somewhat rare in
psychological science. Jack’s current research focuses on
investigations of the effect of rearing experiences (ontogeny)
on adult psychological traits; and the neurological substrates
of moral reasoning. He has been named “Researcher of the Year”
and “Professor of the Year” by his dept. The Palmers are
long-time practitioners of the meditative discipline Sant Mat.
Their daughter works in television and film production on the
West Coast, and their son (now deceased) was a computer
programmer and graphic designer.
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Vita and narrative bio:
About our book, Evolutionary Psychology:
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Linda
K. Palmer, is co-author (with Dr. Jack A. Palmer)
of Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human
Behavior. Early in life, Linda made her living as an artist.
Later she worked as manager of the Survey Research Institute,
University of Georgia, and editor-in-chief of Edition Naam
publishing. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, taught
psychology at Louisiana universities, and was a therapist in
private practice. In 1998, Linda left academia and spent seven
years in spiritual centers, studying full-time with renowned
mystic, Thakar Singh. She produced over a dozen books from his
discourses, including his last work, Live the Life of Soul.
Linda currently conducts psychological research with Jack,
serves as editor for Jiva Institute, and does freelance editing
and writing. Linda and Jack have a daughter who works in
television and film production; their son (now deceased) was a
computer programmer/graphic designer.
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Sheri
Ritchlin's
dissertation—The Return of the Sage: A New Cosmology Meets the
Way of Heaven and Earth in the I Ching—was written under the
guidance of Yi Wu, Brian Swimme and Richard Tarnas. She is the
author of One-ing and Dream to Waken as well as articles for the
Institute of Noetic Sciences Review (Shift), and Parabola
Magazine, including an article in the forthcoming Spring 2008
issue. She is currently at work on Fields of Light: The 2012
Venus Transit of the Sun.
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Brian
Swimme: Mathematical Cosmology,
(Gravitational Dynamics)
University of Oregon, 1978 Evolutionary cosmology, science and
spirituality, the role of humanity in the unfolding story of
Earth. His
research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of the universe,
the relationship between scientific cosmology and more
traditional religious visions, the cultural implications of the
new evolutionary epic, and the role of humanity in the unfolding
story of Earth and cosmos. In 1998 he founded the international
Epic of Evolution Society, a forum for artists, scientists, ecofeminists, ecologists, religious thinkers and educators
interested in the new story. He is the author of The Hidden
Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996), Manifesto for a Global
Civilization (with Matthew Fox) (Bear and Company, 1983),
The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984) and
The Universe Story (Harper, 1992) which is a culmination
of a ten-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas
Berry. Brian's media work includes the video series, Canticle to
the Cosmos and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos.
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Richard Trowbridge: Founder, Transletix, The Flourishing
Earth, The Wisdom-Centered Life. In 1996, after attaining an MA
in Philosophy from Vermont College on the topic of worldviews, I
began The Self-Liberation Center for Human Development. This
organization, while not ultimately successful (copies of back editions of
the newsletter The Possible Self are available upon
request), did lead to The Flourishing Earth and Transletix--Training
Athletes of Human Potential. In 2006 I complete a doctoral
program at Union Institute and University, studying the concept
of flourishing in a more focused way. This led to a focus on
wisdom. Currently I teach critical thinking, human relations,
and moral philosophy to undergraduates, and wisdom and thinking
skills to people over fifty. Work in progress: a translation of
Charles de Bovelles, Liber de Sapiente, The Book of the Sage
(completion date: November 2008).
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Art Whatley
serves as the Program Chair for a Master of Arts program in
Global Leadership and Sustainable Development at Hawaii Pacific
University where he has been on the faculty for thirteen years.
Prior to moving to Hawaii, he was on the faculty in the College
of Business Administration at New Mexico State University for
twenty-six years. He has also held a visiting professor
positions at the University of Hawaii/Manoa over a twenty-year
period. He has also held positions at the East-West Center in
Honolulu, and the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. He
has owned and operated a small nursery business and commercial
pecan operation in New Mexico. He has been a professional
consultant, trainer, and educator for over 35 years. As a
consultant his clients have included school districts, city and
county governments, private corporations, non-profit
organizations, multinational corporations, and universities in
the U.S., Mexico, Pakistan, and Finland. He specializes in
critical theory as applied to organizations, large systems
change, sustainable development, globalization trends, and
models for helping clients to develop sustainability strategies
for their organizations. He has published three textbooks and
over fifty academic and practitioner journals world-wide. He
recently completed a Fulbright Senior Fellow program with the
University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia.
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